So Maxim can produce content that looks like it was written by a bunch of pre-pubescent boys who still haven't figured out what their erections are for. Thank you Mr Observation. Nonetheless the article did bring to mind was one of my most treasured gaming memories. It involved a toilet, a woman and a man named J.C. Denton.

When I first arrived at UNATCO headquarters I still hadn't quite come to terms with what kind of game Deus Ex was. I knew it was something different but in many ways I was still treating it like a traditional first person shooter and this was never more evident with my approach to the UNATCO restrooms.

Thanks to games like Duke Nukem 3D I had come to appreciate toilets as places of wealth. Not in any filthy scatological sense but simply because toilets would often harbour vast stores of extra weapons, health pick-ups, power-ups and the like. I had little reason to suspect that Deus Ex would be any different. After all, I'd certainly not played enough of the game to realise that in Spector's world, you would only ever find things lying around where it would be logical to do so. So I charged into the men's rooted around a bit and came out empty handed. One bathroom down, next was the lady's.

Of course any Deus Ex fan knows full well what was awaiting me. A rather irate UN employee demanding I leave this instance. I was a little stunned and somewhat amused but still, nothing too phenomenal to report. It was just a nice touch at this stage. It wasn't until I was receiving my Liberty Island debrief from Joseph Manderley that this toilet encounter would be forever etched into my gamer mind.

As I turned to leave Manderley added something I wasn't expecting. An admonishment for having entered the ladies restrooms, claiming it reflected badly on both myself and the agency. It came out of nowhere; I was blind-sided by such an innocuous comment. Game's weren't supposed to pay attention like that, but Deus Ex did and I was impressed.

So game toilets may be nothing more than an excuse to make increasingly puerile and vulgar nicknames for fecal matter if you right for a certain men's rag but I look upon the latrines of the digital age with a little more respect. It was a bathroom that showed me how good gaming could be.